Austin Hall: 6 books

Austin Hall's classic, The Blind Spot, first came out as a serialized novel in Argosy magazine in 1921, and was first published in book form in 1951. It's a longstanding classic of the genre-- in fact, genres--scifi, horror, fantasy and mystery, with a bit of Futurism tossed in for...

Austin Hall (c. 1885 - 1933) was an American short story writer and novelist. He began writing when, while working as a cowboy, he was asked to write a story. He wrote westerns, science fiction and fantasy for pulp magazines.    The story opens on an oppressively hot day with a poor little newspaper...

The story opens on an oppressively hot day with a poor little newspaper boy, Charley, playing with a "burning glass" (a magnifying glass) which he uses to concentrate sunlight onto a small focal spot, thus intensifying the heat on some paper until it burns a hole, perhaps a portent of things...

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond sets a bold new course for anthologies by showcasing work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction. The writers in this anthology have earned such honors as the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, the Hugo,...

The story opens on an oppressively hot day with a poor little newspaper boy, Charley, playing with a "burning glass" (a magnifying glass) which he uses to concentrate sunlight onto a small focal spot, thus intensifying the heat on some paper until it burns a hole, perhaps a portent of things...

This 1897 edition of Dobson's 1874 work was revised and extended by Griffin. It was originally intended to assist candidates in preparation for civil service examinations but under Griffin the volume took on a more general cast.  As he wrote in his introduction, "it is simply designed to give a concise...